Head of Patient Safety - Nuneaton, United Kingdom - George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

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Nuneaton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

37.5 hours per week - Permanent

£50,952 to £57,349 per annum

Closing date: 24/11/2023

Interview date: 05/12/2023

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

The post holder will lead, coordinate and implement the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and risk management approach, providing risk oversight and promoting a positive and supportive
risk management culture.
The Head of Patient Safety & Risk Management will lead on building and embedding a corporate risk management framework. Working with directorates to review and challenge risk mitigation and provide
appropriate assurance reports to the Executive Team and Board.

Strong proven leadership skills required to manage our Patient Safety & Risk Management Team Patient Safety Response Team, ensuring high standard reports are delivered and actions are generated.
Support the review, design, and delivery of training and education programmes to support our Patient Safety Incident Response, Risk Management, Duty of Candour etc.
Prepare and deliver teaching and presentation materials, relating to Quality, Patient Safety and Risk to meet the needs of staff across the organisation.
Contribute to patient safety and quality groups to influence and contribute to learning and improvements in patient safety.
Ensure effective reporting and analysis of patient safety incidents that includes Patient Safety Strategy implementation and progress, thematic reviews, triangulated data analysis reporting to the Board and tracking of investigations and outcome briefings.
Contributes to the Trust's Quality Account and to the Trust's statement on assurance.
To lead a systematic approach to learning from incidents and support a Just Culture.
To ensure that high quality patient safety and risk management is embedded and continually develop a positive, open and honest, supportive risk management culture throughout the Trust.
To lead on the implementation of the Trust Risk Management Strategy, including specific steps to develop organisational risk maturity.

We are working in exciting times as we strive to achieve excellence and meet the standards set out in the National Patient Safety Strategy including the launch of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

As the Head of Patient Safety and Risk Management, you will be an integral member of the leadership team in Quality Governance; leading a team of Directorate Governance Co-Ordinator's to drive improvements in quality and safety.

The successful postholder will also be responsible for leading the implementation of PSIRF across the Trust and play a key role in transforming patient safety into a dynamic, evolving process that supports a learning culture that is open and just.

You will be the lead Patient Safety Specialist for the Trust providing expert advice and opinion. You will also be responsible for leading and managing the corporate risk management framework. Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

We are looking for a leader with proven leadership and management skills, with a strong sense of initiative, problem solving abilities, extensive knowledge and understanding of patient safety and quality national standards with in depth understanding of improvement methodologies.

Proactive working and engagement with internal and external stakeholders is required.

Purpose

The post holder will lead, coordinate and implement the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
(PSIRF) and risk management approach, providing risk oversight and promoting a positive and supportive
risk management culture.
The Head of Patient Safety & Risk Management will lead on building and embedding a corporate risk management framework. Working with directorates to review and challenge risk mitigation and provide
appropriate assurance reports to the Executive Team and Board.

Patient Safety & Risk Management

Strong proven leadership skills required to manage our Patient Safety & Risk Management Team Patient Safety Response Team, ensuring high standard reports are delivered and actions are generated.
Facilitate, in conjunction with Directorate Management Teams, specialty departmental risk assessment processes and to ensure that the risk registers are effectively populated to enable analysis and identification of trends and actions arising, and to monitor on a regular basis to ensure that risks are controlled.
Support the review, design, and delivery of training and education programmes to support our Patient Safety Incident Response, Risk Management, Duty of Candour etc.
Prepare and deliver teaching and presentation materials, relating to Quality, Patient Safety and Risk to meet the needs of staff across the organisation.
Contribute to patient safety and quality groups to influence and contribute to learning and improvements in patient safe